I wonder if he just doesn't need to empty his trash.
Regards
Justin Harford
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell and
looked awhile, pondering his voyage
John Milton
Paradise Lost
On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
If you had a permission problem, it should have presented itself
upon the copy or delete. That is, a dialog should of appeared
telling you that there was a problem copying because you didn't have
the proper permissions or it would not have let you completely
delete the folder. There are a couple of little apps out there that
will tell you sizes of hidden files, I can't recall the names of
them but the one I used to use was mostly VO friendly. It started
with a d and was the app name followed by an X.
Later...
On 28-Sep-08, at 6:11 AM, John J Herzog wrote:
Hi listers,
I am experiencing some strange behavior and am hoping someone can
help.
Recently, I copied a folder with a substantial amount of music from
an external drive. The folder was about 18 GB in size. Here's the
interesting part.
Although finder shows that my available disk space has been
decreased by 18 GB, the finder only shows the music folder as being
4 GB in size. Similarly, I can only view the 4 GB or so of music.
The rest of the files are there but inaccessible.
Thinking the folder was corrupt, I deleted it. However, I only got
4 GB of space back. There's still about 14 gigs that finder says is
no longer free, and yet I can't see the files occupying that space.
What's going on here? Do I not have permission to view the rest of
the files in that folder? How do I go about reclaiming my disk
space? I don't even care about the music at this point, I just
really want this fixed.
Thanks for any info about this.
Sincerely,
John
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
